I am firmly opposed to @Keir_Starmer’s digital ID cards.
It will make no difference to illegal immigration, but it will be used to control and penalise the rest of us.
The state should never have this much power.
How it started:
"Assisted dying is a humane policy to help those with terminal illness to have a peaceful death when they choose"
How it will go:
"Mrs Smith, you're a burden to your friends, family, the NHS and, most importantly, the government. Your suicide's booked for 3pm."
FFS
French MEP Sarah Knafo tells Ursula von der Leyen, to her face:
"You will not turn our continent into a soulless and uninteresting space, where your technocratic whims rule and dictate morality."
"We will grant you no respite. We will no longer allow you to operate in the shadows. We will be the spotlight focused on your actions. Europeans must know the truth. They want it, they need it, and they have the right to it."
Credit: @knafo_sarah
Democrat political analyst brags about Kamala’s huge win coming, buys champagne on Election Day and mocks Trump supporter selling it to her at liquor store. This is glorious, watch it. Trust me:
I just tried listening to Starmer's speech. I had to stop. It was making me too angry.
I tried employment. I worked for large companies. Insurance, Banking, Derivatives Broking. It wasn't for me.
When I left (ok, got fired) to become self-employed (hence not a "working person" in Starmer's view) and my quality of life immediately improved (as a car valeter), many people turned against me out of pure envy.
They didn't want to wash cars. No, they weren't willing to work that hard. They just wanted my freedoms, but weren't willing to put in the work required to get it.
Some of them, between jobs, came and asked me for work. I gave it to them. It made them hate me even more.
Some of them, friends whom I trusted, even stole from me.
This was when I was 23 years old. I employed 16 people in a hand car wash, in Crawley station car park. For some reason that enraged those people more, as if I was doing something wrong.
They were angry with me, like I had done something wrong.
It's important to note that there were plenty of people, old friends, who congratulated me and wished me well, and even said "I wish I'd had the courage to do the same". It's not everyone.
All I had done was choose to take a chance on myself. They were angry, because they didn't have the courage to do it.
They should have been angry with themselves. They let themselves down, I didn't.
Some of them tried self-employment, but half-heartedly, failed, and gave up almost immediately. That made it even worse.
I failed, repeatedly, but just kept going, a little stronger and wiser each time.
Eventually, at the ripe old age of 26 I got into the tech world, in property. Suddenly I was working in an office, with a team. I was the boss. I had clients, investors, money was coming in. We were changing things.
We opened an office in Australia, because a big client asked us to. I found myself flying back and forth between London and Sydney, signing clients, working up to 20 hours a day, having the best time, seeing the world.
At this point, employing some 40 people, some of my old friends just stopped talking to me altogether. "Who the hell does he think he is?" as though me starting a business and creating jobs was an affront to them.
I could go on, you get the idea.
What's my point?
Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and many of the Cabinet are the kinds of people who never had the courage to start anything themselves, and deeply resent those of us who have, because we are a living reminder of their weakness of character.
Now they have power, it is their time for revenge.
They truly, deeply, viscerally hate free-thinking, harder-working (than employees) change-making people. It's an affront to their misguided sense of self-importance.
They hate the self employed. You're not "working people". You're not a pay-rolled wage slave they can control.
Plumbers? No, you're not hard working apparently. Feckless, self employed layabouts. We'll soon tax you into submission.
Farmers? Hard working, obviously not. So you're completely f***ed.
Successful small business people who have worked hard, saved up and invested? F*** you.
Prepare to reap the rewards of bitterness and jealousy from people who believe in "equality of outcome" over "equality of opportunity."
There are people I know who are fighting and grinding themselves into the ground in the face of ever weakening economic demand, paying wages, having no time for their families.
To suggest these people aren't hard working is an egregious affront, and in today's speech, Starmer has doubled down on his use of this language.
This budget is going to be a disaster. The politics of envy, enacted through a budget.
[Important point: this is in no way a criticism of people who don't choose self employment. Many people choose employed careers, are fulfilled, happy and do very well, and I have many great friends who have done just that.
It is only a commentary on those who are unhappy with their life choices, but not willing to do anything about it. Instead they attack anyone who makes them feel inadequate, when their inadequacies are purely of their own making.]
🚨”IF THIS IS TRUE” - I am Bernadette Spofforth… you know me as Bernie.
And this is the story of how the State silenced an ordinary citizen, through arrest and bail conditions, to ensure only State truth was heard.
With special thanks to @sdavieslaw@speechUnion
Hot on the heels on the worldwide withdrawal of the AstraZeneca vaccine, Lord Grade and Dame Melanie Dawes of the sleazy UK media censor @Ofcom have quietly taken down their "Covid misinformation" page.
See you in court next month.
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@Telegraph, if you hadn’t cancelled me in 2021 (after covering my work for decades) I’d have told you in 2022 that ‘thrombotic thrombocytopenia’ is one of the top side effects for mRNA vaccines. Instead you are 2 years late,and many people got hurt https://t.co/3fiEilLVaK
It appears that Michael Keegan, husband of Tory Education Minister @GillianKeegan, was the UK Chief Executive & Chair of Fujitsu, the firm behind the Horizon computer system during #PostOfficeScandal. I wonder why the Tories have failed to press for #justiceforsubpostmasters?
@CottrellStephen@JustinWelby When are you going to remove Paula Vennals ministry. How dare she preach truth, compassion and honesty when she was so instrumental in misery and suicide. She us a disgrace to your church.
Yes strip Paula Vennals of her CBE, Sir Ed Davey refused to meet Alan Bates when he was Post Office Minister. He was paid £275,000 for doing so, remove his knighthood too and demand he pays that back
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